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List of ecoregions in Mexico

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This is a list of ecoregions of Mexico as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. A different system of ecoregional analysis is used by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, a trilateral body linking Mexican, Canadian and United States environmental regimes.

Contents

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

  • Chiapas moist forests
  • Chimalpas montane forests
  • Pantanos de Centla
  • Petén-Veracruz moist forests
  • Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forests
  • Sierra de los Tuxtlas
  • Veracruz moist forests
  • Veracruz montane forests
  • Yucatán moist forests

    • Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

  • Bajío dry forests
  • Balsas dry forests
  • Central American dry forests
  • Chiapas Depression dry forests
  • Jalisco dry forests
  • Revillagigedo Islands dry forests
  • Sierra de la Laguna dry forests
  • Sinaloan dry forests
  • Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
  • Southern Pacific dry forests
  • Veracruz dry forests

    • Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

  • Central American pine-oak forests
  • Sierra Juárez and San Pedro Mártir pine-oak forests
  • Sierra de la Laguna pine-oak forests
  • Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests
  • Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests
  • Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
  • Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests
  • Trans-Mexican volcanic belt pine-oak forests

    • Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

  • Western Gulf coastal grasslands

    • Flooded grasslands and savannas

  • Central Mexican wetlands

    • Montane grasslands and shrublands

  • Zacatonal

    • Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub

  • California chaparral and woodlands

    • Deserts and xeric shrublands

  • Chihuahuan desert
  • San Lucan xeric scrub
  • Sonoran desert
  • Baja California desert
  • Meseta Central matorral
  • Central Mexican matorral
  • Gulf of California xeric shrub
  • Tamaulipan matorral
  • Tamaulipan mezquital
  • Tehuacan Valley matorral

    • Mangroves

  • Alvarado mangroves
  • Marismas Nacionales-San Blas mangroves
  • Mayan Corridor mangroves
  • Mexican South Pacific Coast mangroves
  • Petenes mangroves
  • Ría Lagartos mangroves
  • Tehuantepec-El Manchon mangroves
  • Usumacinta mangroves

    • Baja California Complex

  • Baja California

    • Colorado River Complex

  • Colorado Delta
  • Sonoran

    • Sinaloan Coastal Complex

  • Sinaloan Coastal

    • Rio Bravo Complex

  • Rio Bravo
  • Pecos
  • Guzman
  • Mapimí
  • Cuatro Ciénegas
  • Llanos El Salado
  • Conchos
  • Lower Rio Bravo
  • Rio San Juan
  • Rio Salado

    • Lerma/Santiago Complex

  • Santiago
  • Chapala
  • Lerma
  • Rio Verde Headwaters
  • Manantlan/Ameca

    • Rio Panuco Complex

  • Rio Panuco

    • Balsas Complex

  • Balsas

    • Pacific Central Complex

  • Tehuantepec

    • Atlantic Central Complex

  • Southern Veracruz
  • Belizean Lowlands
  • Catemaco
  • Coatzacoalcos
  • Grijalva-Usumacinta
  • Yucatán

    • Warm Temperate Northeast Pacific

  • Southern California Bight
  • Cortezian
  • Magdalena Transition

    • Tropical East Pacific

  • Revillagigedos
  • Mexican Tropical Pacific
  • [Clipperton] (an overseas possession of France, disputed by Mexico)
  • Chiapas-Nicaragua

    • Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic

  • Northern Gulf of Mexico

    • Tropical Northwestern Atlantic

  • Southern Gulf of Mexico
  • Western Caribbean

    • References

    List of ecoregions in Mexico Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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